Bach, J.S.: Sonatas For Violin And Harpsichord, Vol. 1

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Cat No: 8554614

Release Date: 09 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BACH, J.S.

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, Vol.1, BWV1014-1017 Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 at Eisenach, wherehis father was employed as a town musician and as a member of the courtorchestra, the youngest of six children of a family that was part of anextended musical dynasty. After the death of his parents, he moved at the ageof ten to Ohrdruf, to the house of his eldest brother, Johann Christoph,organist there at the Michaeliskirche. His schooling in Ohrdruf continued until1700, when he moved to the Michaelisschule at Luneburg some two hundred milesaway. Two years later he began his professional career with employment at thecourt in Weimar, followed very shortly by appointment as organist at Arnstadt,where his family had connections. In 1707 some dissatisfaction with theconditions and musical possibilities at Arnstadt led him to enter the necessarytest for appointment as organist at Muhlhausen, where he married his first wife,his second cousin Maria Barbara. The following year he was appointed courtorganist at Weimar, where, as in 1703, he also served as a violinist or viola playerin the court orchestra. In 1714 he was appointed Konzertmeister, but hisrelationship with his employer, Duke Wilhelm Ernst, was uneasy, partly throughhis collaboration in the musical activities of the co-regent of Weimar, DukeErnst August. In 1716 Bach was passed over for the position of Kapellmeister,which he might have expected on the death of the existing incumbent, and thisled him to look elsewhere. His association with Duke Ernst August provided away out, when employment as Court Kapellmeister to the Duke's newbrother-in-law, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cothen was offered on relativelygenerous terms. Duke Wilhelm Ernst was unwilling to release him from his dutiesat Weimar, showing his displeasure finally by imprisoning Bach for a month,before dismissing him from his service. The court at Cothen offered all that Bach could havewished. Prince Leopold was young and an enthusiastic musical amateur and the Pietistpersuasions of the court meant that there was no call for church music. InsteadBach could devoted himself primarily to secular music for the court orchestraand its members in a fruitful series of concertos, sonatas and suites. Theperiod was a happy one for Bach, marred only by the sudden death of his wife in1720, while he was at Carlsbad in the company of the Prince. The following yearhe married again. His new wife, Anna Magdalena, was the youngest daughter ofthe court trumpeter at Weissenfels and employed as a court singer at Cothen.Prince Leopold's marriage in the same year to a woman whom Bach described as 'amusica',however, made life at court much less satisfactory .In December 1722 Bachapplied for the position of Cantor in Leipzig, where he moved the followingspring, exchanging his position at a princely court for the duties of organistand choirmaster, soon to be varied by additional work with another collegi
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